flushing
\ˈflʌʃɪŋ\
The verdict
“flushing” is uncommon French (frequency #66,742 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,742
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe flush.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flushing · flushing · French
flushing · rank #66,742 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,742
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fluctuer
Nearest frequency peer: fluctuer (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « flushing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flatulences
flatulences
33,262 corpus weight
- fleurette
fleurette
33,261 corpus weight
- fluctuer
fluctuer
33,260 corpus weight
- flushing
flushing
33,259 corpus weight
- fondants
fondants
33,258 corpus weight
- fongique
fongique
33,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flushing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flushing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈflʌʃɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flushing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flushing is uncommon French at frequency #66,742 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈflʌʃɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe flush.".
Zero misspellings are on record for flushing in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is flushing, spelled F-L-U-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe flush.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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